ERIC TOLEDANO and OLIVIER NAKACHE

Directors, Writers

ERIC TOLEDANO and OLIVIER NAKACHE (Directors, Writers) are best known for the fourth feature film they directed together, The Intouchables (2011). Starring Omar Sy and François Cluzet, the film grossed $19.5 million in France, the third-best tally in the nation’s box-office history, and was released in more than 50 countries. Critically acclaimed around the world, The Intouchables earned a number of major award nominations including Golden Globe (Best Foreign Film), BAFTA (Best Film not in the English Language) and César (Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography). Omar Sy won the César Award for Best Actor and the film won both a Goya Award (Best European Film) and a Japan Academy Prize.

After beginning their career with the short films Day and Night, The Little Shoes (Audience Award winner, 1999 Paris Film Festival) and The Happy Days (their first collaboration with Omar Sy), the duo shot their first feature film in 2005, Let’s Be Friends, starring Gérard Depardieu and Jean-Paul Rouve.

Next they turned one of their previous shorts into a feature called Happy Days, a comedy about the world of summer camps. In addition to being Omar Sy’s first major feature-film role, the picture was a hit with critics and audiences alike. Toledano and Nakache delivered a successful follow-up with Tellement proches (2009), starring Sy, Vincent Elbaz, Isabelle Carré, François-Xavier Demaison and Audrey Dana.

DELPHINE COULIN

Based on a Novel By

DELPHINE COULIN (Based on a Novel By) is a novelist and movie director. Her five books have been translated into 10 languages and all have enjoyed critical and commercial success. Coulin and her sister, Muriel Coulin, have co-directed five short films and their feature, 17 Girls, was selected for Critics’ Week at the 2011 Cannes Festival. It was released in more than 20 countries. They are now shooting the film adaptation of Delphine’s latest book, Voir du pays, which will be released in 2016.

Coulin’s other novels are Les Traces (2004), Une Seconde de Plus (2006), Les Mille-Vie (2008) and Samba pour la France (Seuil, 2011). Her work was first published in France by Grasset and Seuil.

MURIEL COULIN

Writer

MURIEL COULIN (Writer) is a writer, director and cinematographer. In collaboration with her sister Delphine Coulin, she co-wrote and directed 17 Girls (2011), starring Louise Grinberg. The film won the Michel d’Ornano Award at the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Camera and Critics Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Best First Film at the César Awards.

The Coulin sisters co-wrote and co-directed the forthcoming feature Voir du pays, starring Soko (Her), Ariane Labed and Ginger Romàn. The film is based on a novel by Delphine Coulin.

Coulin has worked in the camera department on many highly acclaimed foreign films over the last 30 years. These credits include Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colors trilogy (White, Blue and Red) and The Double Life of Veronique, as well as Louis Malle’s May Fools.

LAURENT ZEITOUN

Producer

LAURENT ZEITOUN (Producer) is a writer and producer based in Europe. He previously worked with filmmakers Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache on The Intouchables, starring Omar Sy. As a producer, Zeitoun shared in the film’s nominations, including the BAFTA for Best Film not in the English Language, a European Film Award and three César bids. He is currently an associate producer on the French TV series “Disparue.” Up next for Zeitoun is Ballerina, starring Elle Fanning and Dane DeHaan, which he is co-writing and producing.

Though born in Paris, Zeitoun studied screenwriting at UCLA. He is one of the founders of Quad Productions.

NICOLAS DUVAL-ADASSOVSKY

Producer

NICOLAS DUVAL-ADASSOVSKY (Producer) is one of the founders of the Paris-based production company Quad. He counts among his producing credits such films as Let’s Be Friends, starring Gérard Depardieu and Jean-Paul Rouve, and Heartbreaker, with Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis.

Adassovsky previously worked with filmmakers Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache on The Intouchables, starring Omar Sy and François Cluzet. The film was both commercially and critically popular and he shared in its nominations for the BAFTA for Best Film not in the English Language, a European Film Award and three categories at the Césars. Adassovsky is currently an associate producer on the French TV series “Disparue.” Now in production is Ballerina, starring Elle Fanning and Dane DeHaan.

Other film credits include the forthcoming Le père Noël, directed by Alexandre Coffre; Eyjafjallajökull, also helmed by Alexandre Coffre; Homeland, for Mohamed Hamidi; A Perfect Plan, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Diane Kruger; and 30° couleur, for filmmakers Lucien Jean-Baptiste and Philippe Larue.

YANN ZENOU

Producer

YANN ZENOU (Producer) was an executive at Studio Canal from 2005 to 2006 and is currently one of the principals at Quad, a Paris-based production company. As a producer he is best known for The Intouchables, starring Omar Sy and François Cluzet. Zenou shared in the film’s BAFTA, European Film Award and César nominations. He is currently an associate producer on the French TV series “Disparue.” Now shooting is Ballerina, starring Elle Fanning and Dane DeHaan.

STÉPHANE FONTAINE

Director of Photography

STÉPHANE FONTAINE (Director of Photography) is an award-winning cinematographer with a number of notable film credits. For his work on Jacques Audiard’s highly acclaimed crime drama A Prophet (2010), he won a César Award and was nominated for a European Film Award. His lensing for Jacques Audiard’s The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) also garnered a César win.

Fontaine has also shot a number of commercials for major international brands.

NICOLAS DE BOISCUILLÉ

Production Designer

NICOLAS DE BOISCUILLÉ (Production Designer) has designed such films as Polisse (2011), Simon Killer (2012), Radiostars (2012), All About Actresses (2009), Little Jerusalem (2005) and Clara et moi (2004). He is currently working on a drama for director Nicolas Pariser, Le grand jeu.

ISABELLE PANNETIER

Costume Designer

ISABELLE PANNETIER (Costume Designer) is known for her work on such films as The Intouchables, A Prophet, With a Friend Like Harry and The Lookout.

Pannetier was born in Toulouse, in the south of France. She went to Paris to study at the famous National School of Fine Arts. Her first feature film as costume designer was on Gilles Marchand’s Qui a tué Bambi (Who Killed Bambi?). She then teamed with Virginie Montel as costume supervisors on features for filmmakers such as Jacques Audiard and Pierre Salvadori.